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Crumbling a Cookie

What We Call A Cookie Covers Four Basic Components

The cookie itself is really just a name=value pair like age=42, sex=female or id=abc123, but this pairing has a life cycle and may be thought of as existing in 4 separate places or stages. The four basic elements below cover all of what we consider to be a cookie.

The request by the site to have the browser accept a reminder - the Set-Cookie: event.

The actual storage of the reminder by the browser on the user's computer - the client cookie store.

The sending of the reminder by the browser site who issued the cookie - the Cookie: event.